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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tammy meet at the Barber Shop?

2. What anniversary is the couple in "The Seduction" now celebrating?

3. What does Evoni hate in "A Flash Fantasy"?

4. What does Zane warn the readers of before they turn the page from the acknowledgments?

5. In "Dinner At Eight" what happens in the elevator as the narrator and her boyfriend ride the elevator to the party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as a result of Rob and Amber's misdialed phone conversation in "Wrong Number"?

2. Why does SHE leave the boy in the library in "Nervous"?

3. In "A Time For Change" what is Bridget upset with her husband Drake about?

4. What does the author of "If You Were Here Right Now" tell her addressee?

5. Describe how Yardley and Clarence meet in "Be My Valentine".

6. Describe the narrator in "Lust in a Bust Depot".

7. What happens in "The Barbershop"?

8. Why is it so easy for the narrator of "Harlem Blues" to sing the blues?

9. How do Bridget and Drake solve their problems in "A Time For Change"?

10. What is the result of the narrator's night alone with Geren in "Sock It To Me"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and explain how the content of "The Valley of the Freaks" parallels the content of "The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" in that both increase their sexually inappropriate content.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the couple in "The Seduction" to the couple in "The Flash Fantasy" and how they differ in the way their relationships evolve. What do both of these stories suggest Zane believes about the way relationships are formed?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss how Zane disproves the notion that men will be uninterested in a woman if they are sexually intimate upon first meeting. Which stories in "the Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" support this idea and which do not?

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